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Everyone needs a forever home. At Double Dog Ranch, four business-minded cowboys find love and family where they least expect it. Quinn Cooper left a high-powered career behind to help out his best friend Dallas. But he immediately fell in love with the cowboy life. Unfortunately, unless they can turn the ranch around, Quinn may prove his parents were right—he should have never switched careers. Meghan Ashbrook is Redemption Creek’s best-known resident. Her dad owns the mill that employs most of the locals, and she’s spent her entire life trying to convince people she’s not the ...

Love is in the air in Reindeer Ridge as four female shop owners celebrate the season. Christmas Gray didn’t plan to take over the small coffee shop in Snowcap Village. And she certainly didn’t expect to be thrown into the fire during her short visit to her hometown. But Reindeer Ridge still feels like home, and the owner of the coffee shop needs her help. Police officer Slade Allen never thought he’d see Christmas again. She ran out on their wedding seven years ago, leaving him to pick up the pieces. As if being back in town wasn’t enough, his work patrolling the festival puts him ...

A mother’s dying wish gives six battling cousins a chance at family, forgiveness, and love. Jonah Lucas knows this should be the most exciting time in his life. His steakhouse is thriving, his sister’s wedding is days away, and he’s surrounded by people he loves. But there’s one thing missing from his life. And the key to finding it has just walked through the door of his restaurant. Whitney Sanders is in town to help her friend, Everett. He’s getting married, and his future brother-in-law, Jonah, wants information. As an adoption intermediary, she can help Jonah track down his ...

Everyone needs a forever home. At Double Dog Ranch, four business-minded cowboys find love and family where they least expect it. Dallas Tate has a reason for pushing the Double Dog Ranch to profitability. He wants out. He’s long felt stifled by the small town and wants to hit the road as a travel writer. Now that things are up and running, he just has to make the announcement to his twin brother and pack. Teddie Reese loves Redemption Creek, even though her new mobile vet practice spans a thirty-mile area. Her newest client is Double Dog Ranch, where the rescue animals often need medical...

They have it all...except the one thing that matters most. Luke Kelly is facing a career crisis. After a false accusation has his manager pulling him off his tour, he has some work to do to get back in Nashville's good graces. What he needs is a miracle. Rhiannon Moore worked for years to get a record deal, only to have her album stall because it's not country enough. She needs to make her songs sound more like traditional country music. The only problem is, she has no idea how to do that. When Luke and Rhiannon are paired up for a multi-city tour, it's a match made in country music heaven....

A mother's dying wish gives six battling cousins a chance at family, forgiveness, and love. Delta Lucas once had dreams of leaving her small town of Weeping Willow, Texas. Her mother’s terminal illness brought her back home to help out with the family business. Now she runs the diner while her brother manages the family steakhouse. But when a stranger arrives in town, her world is shaken up. Everett Bloom came to town on a mission. He was sent by his law firm to deliver Lorraine Lucas’s final request before dying. Delta’s mother left the family diner to Delta, but the steakhouse will ...

He has no time for love, but a beautiful woman may change his mind. Unfortunately, for her, time is running out. Wes Calhoun is ready to take a stand. All around him, his siblings are settling down, but not him. It's time to travel and enjoy life. But first he needs to work with his brother on a new venture. Kyndall Morrison is on a deadline. Due to a medical situation, she’s been told she needs to have children in the next couple of years. She really wants a family of her own, but she always seems to end up dating men who aren’t ready to settle down. So when circumstances force her and...

Everyone needs a second chance. At Redemption Creek Ranch, four business-minded cowboys find love, forgiveness, and family. Jax Armstrong has always lived in the shadow of his big brother, Logan. But that was never more obvious than when his brother stole his girlfriend right out from under him. Izzie Sutton has a bitter taste in her mouth when it comes to the Armstrong family. But one of the family members is hiding secrets, and Izzie knows exactly what those secrets are. She has a reason for easing her way back into the Armstrong family, and that reason will become clear all too soon. ...

He's struggled to stand out, and so has she. Together they might have a plan to change that. Chase Knott feels like he’s always proving himself. He’s worked hard to stand out from his siblings, but having a twin means he’s always seen as “the other one.” There’s only one place he feels at home—the town diner. Lauryn Todd has her hands full as diner manager. Every morning, she opens the diner to Chase’s smiling face. Lately, she’s found herself looking forward to their interactions. Like him, she always feels like nobody really sees her. So when he comes up with an idea to ...

A mother’s dying wish gives six battling cousins a chance at family, forgiveness, and love. At one time, Jacob Petty and Arizona Woods were Weeping Willow’s “it” couple. She was head cheerleader and homecoming queen, and he was the star quarterback. But five years ago, she dumped him with very little explanation. He never fully recovered. Arizona has spent the past five years building her home bakery business and trying to forget about her first love. When Jacob waltzes back into her life unexpectedly, she tells herself it's only temporary. Once the weekend is over, he'll return to ...

Four brothers, one ranch. Can they save it in time? For five years, Hank has served as Cedar Tree Ranch’s valued ranch hand. He’s happiest when he’s working the ranch’s stables. But lately, it’s become clear that he’s out of his element, as their empty stalls start filling up with horses. Enter Lexie Holder. Lexie is a riding instructor who is concerned that the horses at Cedar Tree Ranch aren’t getting proper care. She also happens to be Hank’s ex-girlfriend. In fact, he’s convinced that the reason she’s being so hard on him is as revenge for him breaking her heart ...

He's celebrating the holiday alone…until she crashes into his life. Garland Scarsdale is driving home to see her family for Christmas when her car goes off in a ditch in an unfamiliar small town. The handsome stranger who owns that ditch has no idea that his offer to help will lead to a holiday stranded together in the snow. Paul McKellar has retreated to a rental cabin to finish his book. While he’s on a tight deadline, he’s also trying to forget about the holiday. His mother’s surprise death happened just a year earlier, and the holidays will never be the same. But the more time ...

A mother’s dying wish gives six battling cousins a chance at family, forgiveness, and love. Evan Petty loves one thing in life: his three-year-old daughter, Mia. When he loses sight of her at a wedding rehearsal, he’s initially relieved to find that a beautiful woman is keeping an eye on her. But that woman turns out to be someone whose name he knows all too well. For Caitlyn Muncie, Evan is a reminder of an all-too-unpleasant past. Her ex-boyfriend is now married to Evan’s ex-wife. As Caitlyn spends more time with him over the course of the weekend, she wonders if there might be a ...

He has an ax to grind with his high school nemesis, and dating that nemesis’s younger sister might just be the revenge he needs. Cassady Knott vowed a long time ago that she would never date a cowboy. It wasn't a tough promise to keep, considering there are only seven cowboys in her town, and she's related to three of them. It hasn’t come up all that much since she’s never seen a cowboy she found attractive. Until now. Tucker Trotter left Cupid Ridge behind fifteen years ago. After a decade of traveling around the West as a wrangler, he’s forced to come home temporarily. Within ...

Four brothers, one ranch. Can they save it in time? Tinsley Ross only wants to establish herself as the best wedding planner in town. But when she injures herself just weeks before the big day, she worries she’ll lose the gig. It doesn’t help that her injury just happens to be on the property of the groom’s brother. When Reilly Briscoe wakes up to find his brother’s wedding planner, injured, in his back yard, he has to help her. He’s a gentleman, after all. But the more time he spends with her, the more their differences surface. They challenge each other to try new things. For ...

Love is in the air in Reindeer Ridge as four female shop owners celebrate the season. As an animal lover, the last thing Annaliese Bennett needs is a trapped bear in the shop across from her pet clothing store. But that's exactly what she finds when she returns from being out of town. Worse, the bear has been deliberately trapped by the shop's owner, Will Parker. Will is starting a new life in the town of Reindeer Ridge. His shop, The Big Bear, sells novelty items while also providing guests the chance to see a live bear kept humanely in the back of the store. Unfortunately, the shop owner ...

They’ve been forced to work together, but they can’t agree on anything. When attraction takes over, though, it becomes tougher to ignore how much they have in common. Lucky Howard has a job to do, and nothing’s going to stop him. As one of Misty Mountain’s top developers, he’s overseeing a complete overhaul of the only dinner theater in town. But doing so means working with the manager of that theater, who happens to be the daughter of one of the town gossips. Jordan Strongblossom takes her work at Misty Mountain Music seriously. But the owner thinks the place needs an overhaul, ...

Misty Mountain’s Scrooge has met his match. Noelle Yule loves Christmas. She was even named for the holiday. But her hometown of Misty Mountain seems to have lost the Christmas spirit. She comes up with a brilliant idea—sprinkle a little Christmas all over town in the form of her hand-crafted decorations. Enzo Reeser has earned his nickname of Scrooge. He heads up the town police force, which means he has to take a certain persona. The recent vandalization of town structures is an example of that. Festive or not, he has to do something about it. But when Enzo tracks down the vandal, ...

Love is in the air in Reindeer Ridge as four female shop owners celebrate the season. Meredith Aikman is struggling as the newly elected mayor of Reindeer Ridge. She beat out her childhood friend Christopher Shepard for the job, so she's working extra hard to prove that voters made the right choice. But nobody warned her how complicated planning the town's Christmas festivals would be. As former mayor, Christopher should want Meredith to fail. But he's secretly loved her since the first time he saw her in second grade, even if she never loved him back. When the opportunity arises to help ...

Love is in the air in Reindeer Ridge as four female shop owners celebrate the season. Tatum Parks is known as Reindeer Ridge’s premier baker. But this year, she has company. Reindeer Ridge is hosting the state’s first-ever gingerbread house competition. Bakers from all over North Carolina will be traveling to the area to compete. There’s only one thing more important to Ian Holiday than being a baker: running a successful business. Unfortunately, Sweet Treats is struggling. This gingerbread competition is an important first step in Ian’s quest to save his bakery. He just has to beat...